3 papers
cs.CL2026
Speaking of Language: Reflections on Metalanguage Research in NLP
Nathan Schneider, Antonios Anastasopoulos
This work aims to shine a spotlight on the topic of metalanguage. We first define metalanguage, link it to NLP and LLMs, and then discuss our two labs' metalanguage-centered effort…
cs.CL2026
Lost in the Tower of Babel: The Adverse Effects of Incidental Multilingualism in LLMs
Anjishnu Mukherjee, Chutong Meng, Antonios Anastasopoulos
This paper argues that contemporary multilingual NLP has converged on a fragile and misleading paradigm of incidental multilingualism. Today's LLMs appear multilingual largely beca…
cs.CL2026
Safe Language Generation in the Limit
Antonios Anastasopoulos, Giuseppe Ateniese, Evgenios M. Kornaropoulos
Recent results in learning a language in the limit have shown that, although language identification is impossible, language generation is tractable. As this foundational area expa…